A fire broke out at the office-cum-godown of a construction company opposite a mosque in the Hastings area around 2.45pm on Monday. Fire department officers said construction material and tyres were stored in the godown. Three tenders extinguished the fire around 3.30pm. No one was reported to be injured.

A 25-year-old youth was detained for allegedly pelting a police vehicle with a stone at the Harish Chatterjee Street-Hazra Road crossing on Monday morning.
olice said the youth, later identified as Surajit Mukherjee, was mentally challenged.

A 50-year-old man was found unconscious on a footpath along Banga Sen Lane in Chitpur on Sunday night. He was taken to RG Kar hospital where he was declared dead. Police later identified him as Shyam Chowdhury, a resident of Chitpur. The man died apparently after a heart attack.

A Barrackpore court on Monday sentenced Kalo Mondal, a supplier of illegal arms in North 24-Parganas, to three yearsí rigorous imprisonment after convicting him under the arms act.
ondal had been arrested in Titagarh in August with a country-made revolver and several bullets.